Professional & Business Services

Enfield, Connecticut – September 11, 2026 -- Annex Brands, Inc. has opened a new PostalAnnex Express franchise inside Tobacco Hut at 2 Middle Road in Enfield, CT 06082, expanding its franchise network to a new local owner, Gaurav Trehan.

New location bundles shipping carriers under one roof for local customers

The express location offers shipping services through USPS, UPS, and DHL, alongside expert packing services, private mailbox rentals, and packaging supplies. The site combines retail tobacco operations with parcel logistics, a model Annex Brands has used to broaden its franchise footprint into non-traditional retail spaces.

Aachen – September 10, 2026 -- FEV Consulting has been included in the World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2026 list, published jointly by Forbes and Statista, marking a repeat recognition following its 2022 and 2023 appearances on the global ranking.

FEV Consulting secures back-to-back Forbes-Statista recognitions in 2026

The Aachen-based firm was also named to the America's Best Management Consulting Firms 2026 list earlier this year, adding to its 2022 and 2023 inclusions in the global Forbes ranking. The consultancy positions the latest listing as confirmation of its sustained standing as an internationally recognized management advisory firm.

Alflen – September 10, 2026 -- Emilio Donaubauer, 27, generated between €2,000 and €3,000 a month from a self-taught design and content business while still a teenage apprentice, income that outpaced his training salary and became the foundation for two companies he now controls: EmilioMindless GmbH and holding entity Mindless Empire GmbH.

Donaubauer built a paying client base from unpaid gaming-industry design work starting at age 13

Donaubauer taught himself Photoshop to produce thumbnails, banners and video edits after connecting with major German gaming influencers. He worked unpaid for several years before referrals converted the skill into paid contracts, shifting focus around age 16-17 from individual creator clients to B2B customers seeking longer-term branding relationships.

Koblenz – September 10, 2026 -- Mid-sized companies lose time and marketing impact when they hire multiple specialized vendors instead of a single accountable partner, according to Sarah Walenta, founder and managing director of communita GmbH.

Walenta argues that fragmented marketing setups -- separate providers for websites, social media, SEO and campaigns -- push coordination work back onto internal staff or management, undermining the outsourcing benefit companies originally sought.

San Antonio – September 10, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has appointed Janesh Janardhanan as Global Partner and Head of its Subscriptions business, giving him P&L leadership over the firm's analytics operations, subscriptions platform, and Growth Generator data platform.

Janardhanan takes P&L control of Frost & Sullivan's recurring-revenue subscription portfolio

The appointment covers three commercial units: the company's analytics business, its subscriptions platform, and the Growth Generator data platform. These offerings provide clients with continuous access to intelligence, growth opportunity analytics, and decision-support tools on a recurring-revenue basis.

Sydney – September 10, 2026 -- Nuix has moved into general availability for generative AI features within its Nuix Discover SaaS platform, and rolled out a new AI Chat tool under an Early Adopter program, with full launch scheduled for December 2026.

Nuix Discover adds document summaries, semantic search and visual clustering to eDiscovery workflow

The generative AI suite, announced September 4, integrates document summaries, similar-document detection, semantic search, and aggregation with visualizations directly into Nuix's legal review and eDiscovery solution. Each document now receives an automatic plain-language summary upon import, allowing reviewers to quickly parse lengthy contracts, complex attachments, and long email threads.

Hemmingen – September 10, 2026 -- German legal-tech firm Kanzlei Kraftwerk says AI agents can reduce manual workload in tax and law firms by up to 80% for suitable processes, allowing firms to absorb higher case volumes without proportional headcount growth.

Tax assessment reviews consume thousands of hours annually

According to founder and CEO Jan Skrzypczak, a standard tax assessment review takes an average of roughly 15 minutes per case. With firms processing four- or five-digit volumes of incoming assessments per year, this workload accumulates to several thousand hours of manual labor annually.

Cologne – September 09, 2026 -- Cologne-based communications agency Counterpart Group is warning clients and the marketing industry that polished AI-generated output is increasingly mistaken for substantive strategy, coining the term "marketing holograms" for concepts that look finished but collapse under scrutiny.

Counterpart Group says AI-generated concepts often look complete without being properly validated

Managing Director Judith Dobner said generative AI can now turn an initial idea into a presentation-ready concept within minutes, but professional form does not equal substance. She warned that unverified assumptions can be dressed up to look like fact, and unchecked logic can appear sound simply because AI phrases it convincingly.

Stockholm and Oslo – September 09, 2026 -- Multiconsult ASA and Rejlers AB have agreed to merge into a combined pan-Nordic consultancy group with close to 8,000 employees and a market capitalisation of nearly SEK 8 billion.

Boards approve merger of equals with 54-46 ownership split

Under the joint cross-border merger plan adopted by both boards, each Multiconsult shareholder will receive 0.9725 Rejlers class B shares per share held, giving Multiconsult shareholders 54% and Rejlers shareholders 46% of the new entity. The combined company will be named Multiconsult Rejlers and will be dual listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and Euronext Oslo Børs.

Hamburg – September 09, 2026 -- Germany's Faktenkontor agency group has rebranded as PER Group, restructuring its five subsidiaries around client-outcome delivery rather than traditional agency disciplines such as PR, data or technology.

PER Group replaces discipline-based units with client-outcome "Impact Architectures"

The group, ranked 12th in the Pfeffer-Ranking of German PR agencies, will no longer organize services by function. Instead, each client engagement starts with a defined business outcome -- visibility, trust, acceptance or growth -- before communication, data, insights and technology are combined into what the group calls an individual "Impact Architecture."